Whether you’re a fan of H.P. Lovecraft’s horror mythos or just a roleplayer who is looking for a chilling, supernatural setting to run your players through, the seventh edition of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying system will supply everything you need. In the Call of Cthulhu Keeper’s Rulebook, players will find all the rules they need to begin a game in the setting. You will control detectives exploring the dangerous, cult-ridden, eerie realms that others dare not enter. Complement your core rulebook with S. Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftain Horrors, a dense volume of creatures, stats, and habitats that will flesh out your gaming experience in the most skin-crawling ways.

Having been reprinted countless times, Kill Doctor Lucky is back in its newest version! Over nearly twenty years, this reverse murder mystery board game has attracted first-time players with each reprinting and this time is no different. For two to eight players, Kill Doctor Lucky is, essentially, reverse Clue. Various guests attempt to isolate the roaming Doctor Lucky in a secluded room in order to off him and inherent his vast fortune. Excellent for larger groups of friends with a darkly tinged humorous streak.

Fans of Naruto now have a new way to experience the cult favorite anime series. Naruto Shippuden The Board Game drops players into the world of the series, letting them use detailed miniatures to control characters from the show as they track down the Akatsuki organization as they lay waste to the countryside. Travel the world and use your ninja skills to thwart the evildoers in each town.

You might have heard that there is a new Star Trek movie coming out. Or that it’s the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved sci-fi series. Capitalizing on those facts, Fireside Games has released Star Trek Panic, another version of the popular Castle Panic. In this version of the game, players will control crew members of the USS Enterprise, including Kirk, Spock, and “Bones,” as the ship is assaulted by Romulans, Klingons, and other alien races. Your challenge is to coordinate as a crew to keep your shields up and dispatch your enemies.

Can you believe Dominion has made it to ten expansions? With Dominion: Empires, the world of the popular deck building game expands far beyond its previous realms. In this three hundred card expansion, players receive a range of new and exciting cards, including ones that players buy during one round, but pay for in the next, dual cards, and landmarks that exponentially increase your scoring power. As well, VP tokens and Events from previous versions of the game gain additional materials. Combine Empires with either base Dominion game or any of the other nine expansions to alter gameplay and enhance your experience!

Fantasy Flight is getting in deep with the family. A spin on the classic Mafia card game, Mafia: Vendetta is a deception game in the vein of Bang! and Ultimate Werewolf. However, in Mafia: Vendetta, players are attempting to weed out the mobbed up individuals within the group. Over the rounds, players will pose accusations in an effort to uncover the covert culprits, but players will also be eliminated, slowly parring down the number of players.

Adding cards twenty-one to forty of the Westeros cycle, The Road to Winterfell is a chapter pack of sixty new cards for the A Game of Thrones LCG. These cards are meant to augment existing decks and add variety to the base game and expansions from the series.

Much like Smash Up’s Big Geeky Box, Pixel Tactics Deluxe simultaneously acts as an expansion, a base game, and a container for your cards. In addition to a complete set of never-before seen heroes, Pixel Tactics Deluxe gives you a large storage box to keep your whole collection in one, a bonus minipak expansion, and a big rulebook that introduces new play modes, including Large-Group League Play. Deluxe is also fully playable on its own, but combining multiple Pixel Tactics games together gives you a ton of new ways to play.

Another in the popular The End of the World RPG series, Alien Invasion drops this weekend. Like the other apocalypse scenarios, Alien Invasion has players actually playing themselves in the campaign, with the stats to reflect their own (so you might want to start training now). Outside of the instructions for the rule system, this hardcover volume also includes character creation rules and five different scenarios that homage various alien invasion plots (such as giant insects, alien infiltration, and the class flying saucers).

Everyone knows that the bad guys have all the fun in comic books, so Sentinels of the Multiverse is giving players a chance to experience what it’s like to be villainous. Villains of the Multiverse is a mega expansion for the game, using the villain team gameplay mechanics introduced in Sentinels of the Multiverse: Vengeance to group villains together as a team fighting against a hero team. Ten new villains are included, which can be faced in any configuration, as well as four new environments.

Much like Magic the Gathering, a new Pokemon set is always a moment for celebration if you’re an avid CCG player. Pokemon Breakpoint is the newest set, including 120 cards that expand on the storyline regarding the rift between worlds. In addition to the regular booster pack release, there is also a Elite Training Box for the set that includes eight booster packs, card sleeves, dice, tokens, and a card box with dividers.

Somewhere between Quarriors and a resource management game, King’s Forge is a fantasy-based dice game for two to four players. In the game, players will collect and utilize various different dice to build items or trade for better dice. In order to do this, players will traverse nineteen realms, each with their own dice opportunities, and decide whether to keep their dice or construct one of thirty-two different creations. And if that sounds slightly disorganized, don’t worry, because this edition also comes with a game board to help organize everything.

Cats are big business in the gaming world right now, so IDW has jumped on the bandwagon with Cat Tower. This dexterity game is not only extremely cute, but also an excellent party game. For two to six players, Cat Tower involves the stacking of foldable cat cards, much like a furry Jenga. The order and position of the cats is decided by the roll of a die, but do be careful rolling that die, because each fallen cat goes directly into the guilty player’s deck. The more you have, the less points you gain.

Building an empire is a hard day’s work all on its own, but try doing it with an evil alien race attacking you! The most recent expansion set for Race for the Galaxy challenges you to do just that. Xeno Invasion is two games in one box, including both new start world cards that can be added to the base game to expand play options along with the Invasion Game scenario that can be incorporated to up the difficulty.

Yes, we all know Christmas was nearly a month ago, but game distributors are a little less certain. Hence, Secret Santa, a festive card game of competitive gift giving. Underneath all of the holiday cheer, everyone really is just giving away presents to feel that rush of approval when the receiver joyfully exclaims “This is the best present ever! You know me so well!” Secret Santa is all about that moment, as players compete to give away all of their present cards. Alter the game a little by adding in Santa’s Elves, where players have to give away their gold rings and avoid being stuck with the dreaded fruitcake.

Officially intended for the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, the Iconic Heroes sets are more commonly used for the traditional Pathfinder roleplaying game. Icon Heroes Set 4 contains miniatures for the Human Bloodrager, Half-Elf gunslinger, Dwarf Shaman, Stone Spirit Animal, Human Skald, and Half-Elf Swashbuckler. Each one of the miniatures is fully painted and ready for use in-game. For those who are actually using these in conjunction with the Adventure Card Game, the set also includes six exclusive cards to be incorporated into the game.

Though Escape: Zombie City has been out on the shelves for nearly a month, we some how never mentioned it in a New Game Stuff post. Tonight that is rectified. A spin-off of Queen Games‘ popular Escape series, Zombie City deposits players into a zombie apocalypse and demands that they outrun the hordes of undead clamoring to eat them. The catch? You only have fifteen minutes to get out of town! With everyone working together, players start a fifteen minute counter included with the game, then rapidly attempt to flee the confines of the city.

Bang!, the popular, Western deception card game, puts a couple more bullets into its six-gun this weekend. First up are two expansion decks, High Noon and The Valley of Shadows . High Noon includes a new character card, the Judge, and a few new event cards, like Ghost Town and Gold Rush. The Valley of Shadows is a dangerous place, full of snake and tornadoes (and possibly snake-nados), all represented by twenty-four additonal cards. Finally, the biggest draw of the three is Bang! the Duel, a two player only version of the game. Each player controls two different gunslingers, one in front, one in back, then uses their abilities to compete against one another.

As if the fluctuating party card game, Fluxx, was not already a heap of shenanigans, Looney Labs has found a way to increase the randomness. Meet Fluxx Dice. This expansion set can be incorporated into any version of Fluxx (base, Batman, Zombie, Monty Python, etc.), as it includes five new cards and two dice that complicate card draws and win conditions even further.

Everything’s for sale! Or, at least, that’s the idea behind Stefan Dorra’s For Sale: The Game of Property and Prosperity. In this fast-paced game of bidding and bluffing to get the highest-ranking properties, it isn’t how much you pay for the properties, it is how much you sell them for. Manage your money wisely during the bidding and property acquisition phase, then outsmart your rival tycoons during the selling phase. Be the richest real estate mogul at the end of the game to win!

While school might be the last thing you’re thinking about over the holidays, Medieval Academy provides an education that is a pleasure to attain. Over the course of six rounds, players will compete as squires attempting to impress their respective knights. Master the arts of jousts and tournaments, complete dangerous quests, and polish your education by drafting cards to strategically play. By the end, the best squire will be knighted by King Arthur, himself.

Fans of Betrayal at House on the Hill, Letters from White Chapel, and Fury of Dracula will want to closely examine Deception: Murder in Hong Kong. In the game, players find themselves in a scenario of intrigue and murder. One player is the murderer, secretly choosing their weapon and the evidence they leave behind. Another is the forensic scientist who holds the key to convicting the criminal, but is only able to express their knowledge through analysis of the scene. Everyone else plays investigators, interpreting the clues, all while the killer is among them.

Almost as if there’s a new Star Wars movie coming out or something, Fantasy Flight drops two supplemental hardcover books for their Star Wars roleplaying system. First up, for the Force and Destiny system, Keeping the Peace. In Keeping the Peace, players will find additional materials for Guardians, including character options, force powers, signature abilities, lightsabers, armor, and much more. Out for the Edge of the Empire system is the Mask of the Pirate Queen adventure module. A multi-part tale for both seasoned and starting players, Mask of the Pirate Queen sends players on a hunt for the eponymous Pirate Queen.

What’s in the box? In Schrodinger’s Cats, the answer to that question is always indeterminate. A pseudo-scientific card game for two to six players, Schrodinger’s Cats has players running experiments, forming hypotheses, and trying to one-up each others research. Taking on the role of one of many cat physicists, like Isaac Mewton or Neil Degrasse Tabby, players will use their special abilities to prove their hypotheses and debunk those of other players.

You’ve chowed down on a Thanksgiving feast, now it’s time to turn your attention to all of that dreaded holiday shopping. Of course, there’s nothing that says you can’t pick up a gift or two for yourself. Either way, Pulp Fiction has your back with our traditional Black Friday Sale!

We will open at 10am on Friday the 27th, so bring your coffee (hey, for us that’s pretty early)! Below we’ve listed out the three major sales occurring throughout the day.

1. To kick off the holiday season, Pulp Fiction is once again offering the traditional Black Friday Buy-One-Get-One-Half-Off discount on most items in the store!*

2. We will have some limited availability items like the AEG Black Friday Black Box (a new one for 2015). When they’re gone, they’re gone.

3. There will be a selection of half-price clearance items.*

* Disclaimers and clarifications: Discounts and specials don’t combine. The half-off discount applies to the lower priced item. Discounts and specials don’t apply to current comic issues, snack & drinks, consignment items, and certain limited edition items, or almost all items priced less than a dollar. Clearance items are sold as-is, and are not returnable. Other returns will be for store credit at half value.

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